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By Tanner Garrity The Great White North is a predictable powerhouse in the realm of winter sports. Canada has finished top five in the Winter Olympics medal count for every round of Games since 1998. The country hasn’t placed lower than 15th in 50 years, and when it hosted the world in Vancouver in 2010, it paced the entire field with 14 gold medals. But the nation hasn’t always fared so well at the Summer Olympics. Considering the number of athletes it sends to the warmer sports every four years — around 300 or more every contest since the 1984 Games in Los Angeles — Canada has long posted mi…